The deadline for former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to respond to the United States Congress committee’s request for testimony about his relationship with the businessman convicted of abuse and sex trafficking, Jeffrey Epstein, ends this Thursday (20).
In a letter sent to the former prince on November 6, the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee requested that he provide “transcribed testimony” regarding his “long friendship” with Epstein.
The document was signed by 16 members of Congress and asks Andrew to respond by November 20th.
By law, if he does not return the request, Congress cannot subpoena him because he is not an American citizen and is not in the United States.
The request was made a week after King Charles III began proceedings to strip his younger brother of his titles and honors and expel him from the royal estate in Windsor, due to the depth of his ties to Epstein.
Andrew is likely to refuse the committee’s request.
The former prince’s name appears in financial records and documents obtained by subpoena from Epstein’s estate and published by the committee, including in notes such as “massages for Andrew”, which, according to the committee, “raise serious questions” about the nature of his relationship with the former businessman.
He was also accused by – who died by suicide in April – of sexually abusing her when she was just 17 years old. In a posthumous memoir, Giuffre wrote that Andrew “believed that having sex with me was his birthright.”
Despite claiming to have never met her, the former prince reportedly paid millions of dollars to Giuffre in 2022 to settle a civil case she filed against him.
He has repeatedly denied all allegations.
In early October, London’s Metropolitan Police said they were investigating British media reports that Andrew had asked his police protection to “find dirt” on Giuffre in 2011.
In addition to investigating the , the committee stated that it was also investigating attempts to “silence, intimidate or threaten victims”, citing the Metropolitan Police investigation as yet another reason to want to interrogate the former prince.
Royal sources told CNN that the committee’s request is an internal matter for Andrew, on whose behalf Buckingham Palace neither speaks nor acts.
